The English Oak Project

The Ogwen Valley showing mountains, river and lake

My uncle broke ranks with my Methodist family & told me the Glyderau mountains of Dyffryn Ogwen are home to Gods, & Angels live in the rivers & trees on the valley floor

As a child I listened in awe to his stories of a life with Nature, & still have no reason to not believe him

Massive tree at a cricket ground

The one hundred year old Moreton Bay Fig at North Sydney Oval, Australia

The flags marked the recently finished Vegan 3k race in Snowdonia of all 15 mountains over 3,000 feet, and would soon be removed

I don’t doubt I would have found my way, but the race was unknown to me, but will always have my gratitude

The same Gods helped me when I took my parents ashes to the summit of Tryfan (as pictured)

Cloud was down to 2,000 feet, and the route to the summit is notoriously dangerous in bad visibility

I felt I had to continue, & soon found myself following a line of small red flags

The Ogwen Valley showing mountains, river and lake

My uncle broke ranks with my Methodist family & told me the Glyderau mountains of Dyffryn Ogwen are home to Gods, & Angels live in the rivers & trees on the valley floor

As a child I listened in awe to his stories of a life with Nature, & still have no reason to not believe him

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Massive tree at a cricket ground full of people

A fan favourite ‘Grandstand’ used for cricket, Australian rules football, rugby league, rugby union and association (English) football

Massive tree at a cricket ground

The one hundred year old Moreton Bay Fig at North Sydney Oval, Australia

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A tree full of acorns left by a woodpecker

Trypophobia alert 🫣

This is an Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) from Central America & Western United States, filling his acorn larder

If Trypophobia is new to you, it is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps

A bench in a fallen oak tree

The Blenheim Estate lost an oak, and as they like their fallen trees to remain in place to encourage wildlife, they asked artist Matthew Crabb to do his magic

Photo: Pete Seaward

Note the proud Englishman standing next to the tree for scale 🫡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌳

Massive English oak

Nature’s Gold, England’s Glory

An English Bluebell

Who is missing our English Bluebells?

A bluebell a week until they wake again next year #15

Have been there 🙂🌳

No, it’s the Wollaton Oak in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🙂🌳

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A tree that looks like it is singing

What song?

A sweet chestnut leaf bud opening

A photo a week of Spring in our woodland until everything wakes up again #5

Our ancient woodland

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place

Zora Neale Hurston

Fungi living on ‘deadwood’

Deadwood is not Dead

A BIG oak

Nothing to see here, just my eldest son with an average sized Kingdom of Kent oak 🥱🌳

Having walked the length of the lawn to tap on my window to tell me to fill HIS bath & remove the leaves, Bert’s explosive dance moves are now rapidly emptying it

Missed you buddy ☺️🐦‍⬛

The wind is gusting to 45mph in our garden

Our avian residents are taking shelter. Even Big Dave is on his latest new branch, since our gravity challenged pigeon broke his last one

But through the sweeping rain there is the silhouette of a male blackbird bathing

A single white bluebell in a sea of naturally coloured bluebells

As the lights go out all over the world, be a shining beacon

It is important everyone knows there is still good out there, and where to find it

The darker it gets, the more you shine

Do not lose your humanity

Autumn woodland floor

Ancient English Woodland - Still Life Art, the English Oak Project 2025

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